It's creepy that his mind went there. Whitewashing it is very selective.
Selective is correct. Some of the same people who defended his reprehensible posts/history as mere "jokes" bear every tooth in their heads about someone from the other side of the tracks making their own jokes, while fringe Left pundits such as Joy Reid can spew a number of anti-Semitic and homophobic posts/comments and she's barely criticized and keeps her MSNBC job.
Selective indeed.